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PDF Create Profiles

Power PDF uses two independent sets of profiles to organize PDF output settings. See Profiles for details.

The PDF Create Profiles panel appears if you:

  • Click the Profiles button in the PDF Create Assistant.

  • Right-click the application icon in the Windows taskbar notification area and select Edit PDF Create Profiles.

  • Right-click an input file in File Explorer, select Create PDF from File, and then click Edit from the submenu.

Use the PDF Create Profiles panel to add, modify or delete profiles for PDF Create Assistant.

The existing profiles are displayed in this panel on the left. The list may include predefined profiles and those you created. Click any profile on the left to display its parameters on the right. You can edit the following parameters:

  • Compatible with: Select the PDF version. For details, see About PDF Versions.
  • Optimize for Web Viewing: Select this check box to produce Linearized PDF, which is suitable for online reading. For details on different PDF standards, see About PDF Versions.
  • Font Embed: Select which fonts to embed into the PDF document. Click Advanced on the right to start the Embed Font Controls dialog box, where you may customize the Font Embed profiles. See Embed Font Controls for details.
  • Compression: Use quality profiles to assign compression methods and levels to color depths (color, grayscale or monochrome). Select the compression quality that best fits your needs. Click Advanced to open the Compression Controls dialog box, where you can customize Compression Control profiles. See Compression Controls for details.
  • Security: Select any security restriction profile, or click Advanced to start the Security Controls dialog box to customize profiles.

  • Watermarks / Headers and Footers: Select from the predefined watermark profiles, or click Advanced to edit these profiles or build your own. If a watermark profile is selected, you can set the following:

    • Opacity: Specify opacity percentage, edit the value or use the slider on the right.
    • First Page Only: Select this check box to apply the watermark only to the first page of the document.
    • As Background: Select this check box to include the watermark in the background, behind the content.

  • Document settings: Select this check box to enable the Edit button. Click Edit to display the Document Settings window and set Power PDF opening options (such as navigation panel, page layout, or initial page to display) and basic document properties (such as title or author). See Document Settings for details.
  • Compliance with PDF/UA: Select this check box to use input files for PDF/UA-compliant output. If you selected this check box, the Tag PDF check box is also selected automatically. Create Assistant supports various picture and Microsoft Office document formats as a source for PDF/UA-compliant output.
  • Tag PDF: Select this check box to apply tagging in the PDF, providing structural information for the content (such as reading order).
  • Grayscale: Select this check box to produce grayscale output.
  • MRC: Select this check box to use MRC compression. See Searchable MRC PDF Conversion Settings for details.
  • Searchable: Select this check box to convert to searchable PDF and enable the Settings button. Click Settings to open the Searchable PDF Conversion Settings dialog box, to set OCR parameters such as OCR Language or Reject character. See Searchable PDF Conversion Settings for details.

Use the command buttons available at the bottom of the dialog box:

  • Click New to create your own profile.
  • Click Delete to delete a selected profile. Deleted custom profiles cannot be restored.
  • Click Default to restore all profiles to their original settings.